Dr. Anne O’Brien

Dr. Anne O’ Brien is a Lecturer with the Department of Media Studies at Maynooth University. She has published a number of articles on the representation of women in radio and television, on women workers in creative industries and examined why women leave careers in screen production. She has also undertaken research on community media, examining its social benefit and governance needs in funded projects for the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. She has written about how media produce content on mental ill health, suicide, intimate partner homicide and domestic violence. Her most recent book explores ‘Women, Inequality and Media Work’ (Routledge, 2019).